エボラ出血熱の感染が深刻化するリベリア

エボラ出血熱による死者数は西アフリカ4カ国で1000人を超えた。特にリベリアでは感染が医療従事者にまで拡大し、医師不足が深刻化している。

2014 年 8 月 20 日 09:23 JST

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In a school building used to quarantine Ebola patients in Monrovia, Liberia, Umu Fambulle stands over her infected husband after he fell. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries and has overwhelmed the Liberian health system.
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Community organizer John Saah Mbayoh looks over a list of people Friday who have died due to the Ebola virus in his impoverished West Point neighborhood in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by health workers to an Ebola isolation ward a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facililities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients.
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Tawah Fayiah, 54, lies sick in bed while awaiting transport from her one-room home to an Ebola isolation ward Friday in Monrovia.
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Sowe, whose mother said she is 15, sits in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward Friday in Monrovia.
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A Liberian health worker in Monrovia disinfects a corpse after the man died in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward on Friday.
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The leader of a burial team from the Liberian health department on Thursday asks local residents for the location of the body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. Teams of undertakers wearing protective clothing have been retreiving bodies from all over the Liberian capital, where the spread of the highly contagious virus has been called catastrophic.
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Health officials search for the woman's body.
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A girl runs as the burial team prepares to collect the woman's body.
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A health worker walks into an impoverished neighborhood to interview family members of the woman, who it was later determined had died of something other than Ebola.
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The health worker interviews family members in Monrovia.
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Family members wait for health workers to reach their flooded neighborhood.
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Food and water are delivered to a newly opened Ebola isolation center the Liberian health ministry set up by in a closed school in Monrovia, where poeple sleep on mattresses on the floor. People suspected of contracting the virus are being sent to such centers in the capital.
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